Girl

Girl

A girl is any female human from birth through childhood and adolescence to attainment of adulthood when she becomes a woman. The term may also be used to mean a young woman.

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Famous quotes containing the word girl:

    “Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her—when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?”
    —Helen Rowland (1875–1950)

    “When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.”
    —Helen Rowland (1875–1950)

    “A girl could only see
    That a flower had marred a man,
    But what she could not see
    Was that the flower might be
    Other than base and fetid:”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)